Beech House British Waterways Board Canal Maintenance Depot, No.1 Beech House, Shropshire Union Canal (South East Side) (Llangollen Branch) is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1988. Cottage.

Beech House British Waterways Board Canal Maintenance Depot, No.1 Beech House, Shropshire Union Canal (South East Side) (Llangollen Branch)

WRENN ID
blind-brass-azure
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 April 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
Beech House British Waterways Board Canal Maintenance Depot, No.1 Beech House, Shropshire Union Canal (South East Side) (Llangollen Branch), Ellesmere Rural
OS grid reference
SJ 400 342
Coordinates
52.90203, -2.89231
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Beech House is a cottage located at the British Waterways Board Canal Maintenance Depot on the southeast side of the Shropshire Union Canal (Llangollen Branch). It was built around 1806 and is adjacent to the Ellesmere Canal, designed by William Jessop and Thomas Telford. The cottage features painted brick construction and a pyramidal slate roof, with a square plan and a single-storey lean-to on the left side. It has two storeys and a three-window front. The upper and lower left windows are 19th-century segmental-headed casements, while the center and right windows on the first floor are blind square openings. There is a wide 20th-century metal window on the lower right. A central hip-roofed porch leads to a recessed half-glazed door. The cottage has a red brick ridge stack at the center and an integral stack on the back wall, both topped with dentilled capping. Additionally, there are two segmental-headed horizontal sliding sashes on the first floor of the left return. Beech House is included for its group value.

Local climate

Beech House British Waterways Board Canal Maintenance Depot, No.1 Beech House, Shropshire Union Canal (South East Side) (Llangollen Branch) receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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